Police Procedure

https://youtu.be/Gu0wMBJn-r8 TTAG runs a lot of police and cameraphone video of cops gone wild - especially when they end with a questionable "ballistic solution."  The Trinity Texas Police Department posted the video as a well-deserved attaboy for Officer Wheeler....

Regular readers know that New York Finest suck at hitting what they shoot at. The cops' official hit rate (as of 2008): 34 percent. That's pretty damn bad. But not as bad as 1.19 percent. And...

https://youtu.be/gOSdOhJdPsY James Yeager is at it again. The controversial gun guru is making waves with a new video. This time he's responding to the so-called "war on the police" by urging "his brothers in blue"...

Instapundit reckons "THIS CARTOON GETS IT EXACTLY BACKWARD. Police don’t actually protect law-abiding citizens from criminals so much as they protect criminals from the much-rougher justice they’d get in the absence of a legal system."...

"Police in Sacramento are calling a video that depicts a man firing a gun from a moving car disturbing," sfgate.com reports. I'd say "helpful." To wit: "Those in the video were ultimately identified by police...

“You can’t really write a policy that says you have to carry your gun with you all the time. That would be unrealistic. I think there could be a policy that says don’t keep...

[vimeo 65191183 w=500 h=281] According to a Force Science Institute study , a police officer's memory after a shooting is highly unreliable. Same goes for you. That's why you should never agree to a post-defensive gun use police interview without a lawyer present...

"The New York Police Department said that in the midst of the sting, a suspect pulled a gun on the undercover officer, stole the cash changing hands in the transaction and ran," nytimes.com reports....

https://youtu.be/moeIv4glE5k The man who shot the video above, Michael Thomas, sold the exclusive rights to San Antonio’s KSAT12. The local TV station chose not to show the actual moment police gunned down a man with his arms raised in surrender...

"Baltimore officials are expected to authorize the expansion of the anti-violence Safe Streets program to a fifth city location — likely the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, the site of Freddie Gray's arrest," baltimoresun.com reports. "The Board...

"Levi Joraanstad and Colin Waldera were setting up the large device to take pictures of the moon behind their apartment's garage on Dakota Dr. N when they were blinded by a bright light and told...

https://youtu.be/gwEHgq3I-IQ "It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist," thedailybeast.com reports. "Bruce Burkett...